Car-replacer.



8. WHEELER.

CAB BEPLACER. APPLICATION FILED 12.2. 1912.

Patented'DeC: 10, 7

WITNESSES SOLOMON WHEELER, E DENVER, COLORADO.

CAR-REPLACER.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented DecQlO, 1912.

Application filed April 2, 1912. serial No. 637,948.

To all whomatmay concern:

Beit known thatI, SoLoMoNlVuEE-LER, a

, citizen of theUn'ited States of America, and

. resident of-Denver, in the-county of Denver and State of Colorado, haveinvented certain new and j'useful Improvements in Car- Replacers,- of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates :to car replacers andparticularly to members designed to coact :withrails of a railway track, the said members having novel means for anchoring or securing the said members in operative relation to the rails and furthermore, for bold :ing the ends of the members in different poj ti ons; of adjustment with relation to the aid (rails. I

' .It has been found inpractice thatit is desirable to have the re-railing members close to'or remote from the rails, depending upon the distance that the wheels of the rolling stock which have become derailed are located. with respect to the milk, the object of the invention' being to provide securing devices which may be readily adjusted with respect -to' the members and the rails to,

which they are applied in order that the ends of the members may be made to project for a greater or 1cm" extent, within predetermined bounds, so that the wheels may be engaged by the said members and guided toward the rails.

With 'the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote correspond ing parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illus trates a plan view of a. fragment of a track witli 'athe invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 illust tes a view s1m1lar to 1 In these drawings 6 and 7 denote the rails 0 wheels of rolling stock to the rails, the memher 8 having a'groove 9 therein extending along the mneredge of said member and adapted .to guide the .flange of a wheel to the head of the rail. The member 10 ha's a lip .11 at its upper inner edge which forms a cam' for flanges of wheels, the tread surfaces 'of the wheel, it being understood, engaging the upper surface of the member 10., whereas the flange of the same wheel is guided by the inner edge of said member until it cammed to pass across the head of the rail,

reaches the'lip 11 whereby it is .a track having members for guiding it beingunderstood-that the thickness ofthe tread-surfaces thereof to the outer edges of p the flanges. A

The members 8 and 10 have lugs 12 and 13 respectively, the said lugs being duplicates of each other, so that a description of the lugs and securing device of one member will be understood as applying to like parts accompanyin' the other member. The lugs of each mem therein, the reduced portions of which are preferably toward the 'lower edges of the lugs. The button hole slots of each member are designed to receive a chain 16 having hooks 17 on its ends-which hooks are adapted to interlock with the base flange of the rail to which the member is to be applied. By adjusting the chain into the enlarged portion of the button hole slot, the chain may bemoved longitudinally to cause one end or the other to project a greater or less extent beyond the inner edge of the member. As shown in Fig. 1, the ends of the chain project approximately the same distance and therefore the member 10 is held approximately parallel with the rail 7 whereas in Fig. 2 one end of the chain projects be yond the inner edge of the member a greater distance than the other end and-therefore the member is clamped to the rail in a position diagonal to the length of the rail, thus holding the member with its one end a greater distance from the'rail than is possible where the two ends of the chain proj ect a corresponding distance from the member. The chain is held at the different positions of adjustment by means of the links thereof engaging the lugs and therefore the rail.

central portion 'of the chain between the lugs need not be taut but there may be sutficient length of chain between the lugs to permit the interposition of wheel suppogting devices between the member and the For instance, if the Wheels of the rolling stock were so fa-r, away from a rail as to be outside of the lr'each of the end of the.

member, a cross "tie or some like device may be interposed between themember and the rail and the said device could be clamped between the member and the rail by the chain, so that the efliciency and practicability of the device would be augmented.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of the retaining means which interlock With the lugs in a Way to prevent disengagement of the anchoring device with relation to the lugs so .that each member presents what might be termed a unitary structure of parts which cannot become disengaged unless parts thereof are broken.

I claim- 1. In a car replacer a guiding member, apertured lugs depending from the guiding member, a chain having a hookmember on tracted port-ion of the slots and-hold the guiding member in position on a rail.

3. In a car replacer, a guiding member, apertured lugs depending from the guiding member, a chain extending through the apertures, means for securing theehain in the apertures to allow the guiding members to be adjusted at various angles with relation to a rail.

4.-In a car replacer, a guiding member having beveled rail-engaging faces, a' chain, and means for securing: the chain to the guiding member to'allow the guiding member to be adjusted at various angles with relation to a rail.

5. In a car replacer, a guiding member having beveled rail-engaging, faces, a chain for holding the guiding member into engagement with a rail, means for securing the chain to the guiding member to allow the guiding member to be adjusted at various angles with relation to the rail, and means for temporarily locking the guiding member in its position of adjustment.

6. In a car replacer, a guiding member having beveledrail-engaging surfaces, a chain having a rail-base engaging member on each of its ends and means ad acent the respective ends of the guiding member for.

adjustably securing the chain thereto, said means being adapted to lock the chain mits position of adjustment.

In testimony whereoi, I hereunto afiix my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON WHEELER.

wVitnesses EDWARD J. BOUGIITON, U. G. DANrono. 

